User talk:Calvinbarber

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Welcome to Wikipedia

Hi again! I sent you an email a while ago to welcome you to Wikipedia, and mentioned that I'd pass on a couple of links that I found helpful as a new editor. Here they are:

• The new contributors' help page
• The helpdesk, where you can ask questions about how to use Wikipedia, and browse through the questions that others have asked
• The Wikipedia Cheatsheet, a simple guide to some basic formatting commands (like making bold or italic text).

I think you'll find the Picture Tutorial helpful also.

I hope you have a great time here at Wikipedia. Please feel free to contact me if you need any help at all editing or finding your way around. You've got my email address now, or you can drop me a note at my talk page.

Enjoy! --E♴ (talk) 17:44, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Taeko Fukao

Ok, first thing to do is make sure she's notable (ie. important enough that she deserves a wikipedia article). Copying from Wikipedia:Notability (music) , the notability guidelines say

A musician or ensemble (note that this includes a band, singer, rapper, orchestra, DJ, musical theatre group, etc.) may be notable if it meets at least one of the following criteria:

1. Has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable and are independent from the musician or ensemble itself.
   • This criterion includes published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, books, magazine articles, online versions of print media, and television documentaries except for the following:
     • Any reprints of press releases, other publications where the musician or ensemble talks about themselves, and all advertising that mentions the musician or ensemble, including manufacturers' advertising.
     • Works comprising merely trivial coverage, such as articles that simply report performance dates, release information or track listings, or the publications of contact and booking details in directories.
     • Articles in a school or university newspaper (or similar) would generally be considered trivial but should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
2. Has had a single or album on any country's national music chart.
3. Has had a record certified gold or higher in at least one country.
4. Has received non-trivial coverage in a reliable source of an international concert tour, or a national concert tour in at least one sovereign country.
5. Has released two or more albums on a major label or one of the more important indie labels (i.e., an independent label with a history of more than a few years and a roster of performers, many of whom are notable).
6. Is an ensemble which contains two or more independently notable musicians, or is a musician who has been a member of two or more independently notable ensembles.
7. Has become one of the most prominent representatives of a notable style or the most prominent of the local scene of a city; note that the subject must still meet all ordinary Wikipedia standards, including verifiability.
8. Has won or been nominated for a major music award, such as a Grammy, Juno, Mercury, Choice or Grammis award.
9. Has won or placed in a major music competition.
10. Has performed music for a work of media that is notable, e.g. a theme for a network television show, performance in a television show or notable film, inclusion on a notable compilation album, etc. (But if this is the only claim, it is probably more appropriate to have a mention in the main article and redirect to that article. Read WP:BLP1E and WP:BIO1E for further clarifications)
11. Has been placed in rotation nationally by any major radio network.
12. Has been the subject of a half-hour or longer broadcast across a national radio or TV network.

So, I think we may need to do some more research. It looks as though she may qualify under number 5, number 6, or number 7, but you're going to need some sources that verify that. The source you have is a start, but you're going to need more. Try looking here: [1] I'll do some more research tonight. If you want to start writing the article on the wiki, make it at User:Calvinbarber/Taeko Fukao That way, you can get it ready and no one will delete it (for a couple of months). When it is ready, we can move it into the main article space (I'll explain that later). For example, I'm working on an article right now at User:E2eamon/ice_bridge .

Thanks for contacting me! If you have any other questions, let me know right away! --E♴ (talk) 15:04, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Ok- to make references, if you don't want to use the ref tags, try this User:ProveIt_GT. If that doesn't work, you can always use the ref tags- they're not that hard once you learn them. Just type <ref name="put a name for your reference here">whatever the reference text is here (a url, etc)</ref> To use that same ref again, you can just type <refname= the same name you used before/> After you've added references, type {{reflist}} at the end of the article, and a list of all the refs you used will show up there. To add a picture, type[[File:Whatever the filename is.jpg|thumb|left|A caption here]] If you want the pic on the right, change "left" to "right". First, you'll need to upload a picture, and it can't just be something you find on the web. You have to find a free image (no copyright on it...this is very rare), find a copyrighted image and ask the owner to release it, or upload a picture that you own the copyright to (you took the photo yourself). To upload, go to Wikipedia:Upload. Hope all this makes sense. If you mess up with the refs, I can help you fix them. --E♴ (talk) 00:07, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

The format is ok so far. You may want to make a lead section which is a brief introduction before the main body of the article. You should remove the bolding on everything except for the first time you user her name. You may also want to experiment with section headers- just type ==name of the section== to start a new section. This will also create a table of contents automatically, which is pretty cool. You really should find some more references to help verify the information and expand the article. As it is, if it was in the main article space, it would probably be deleted as it doesn't meet the notability criteria I wrote above, so try and find some other sources. As far as uploading a picture, I would be happy to help, but you'll have to find a free (non-copyrighted) image. The one on All About Jazz will probably not work. --E♴ (talk) 23:57, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

It's no problem, I don't mind if we email. I think you just needed one more section header to get a table of contents. I added one, but if you don't think it's appropriate, you can change it. It looks like you're doing good with the refs- keep them coming. I also added some wiki-links (links to other wikipedia articles). If you want to and more, just type [[Other Wikipedia Page]]. If you want, you can also do [[Other Wikipedia Page|Text to display]]. So, for example, if you want to say "she had seven dogs" and you want to link to the Dog article, you would do She had seven [[Dog|dogs]]. Make sense? Keep up the good work. --E♴ (talk) 14:49, 2 March 2011 (UTC)